Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, September 19. Also, check out the video of JEB Bush mocking the idea that (Republican) voters will make the right choice if you just run a positive campaign.

Jill Stein: Trump may have “memory problem” (“The physician turned Green Party candidate sees signs of health, mental, cognitive issues in the man atop the GOP ticket.” For once Jill Stein is right about something?)

McAuliffe Is Using His Pardon Power Properly (“When the Constitution gives power to the governor to do something, it is not tyranny for him to use it.” Correct. Also, this is to give people their fundamental rights back, not to take any rights away as Republicans keep trying to do!)

Anyone interested in a little encouraging news? (In these worrisome weeks, I’ll take any little tidbit I can get.)

I had a conversation over the weekend with a long-time friend who’s one of the most politically knowledgeable people I know. We discovered that we both had the same intuition about that moment. Though neither of us felt all that confident, we both believed that we had reached the moment of Hillary’s prospects bottoming out, that they would rise from here.

This morning, I discovered on the New York Times website –http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential-polls-forecast.html — that the probability of a Hillary victory had up-ticked from 73% to 74%.

BTW, I’m tired of getting emails from Democratic campaign organizations utilizing panic-inducing subject lines. Is that really the best way to mobilize support, and get people to send in their dollars? I’d think that people would respond better from a place of concern, or even worry, than from being terrified.